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The new education has to take the form of training of perception instead of learning lists of concepts, so that we equip our young to navigate through entire fields of information. This is to train explorers and innovators, intellectual and cultural nomads rather than sedentary bureaucrats. Eric McLuhan, "One Wheel, All Square."
This semester has been a struggle for me, and as much as I would like to blame various factors, I have started to realize all the ways I have failed to be a teacher with a pedagogy or a plan. I need to remember: 1. Don’t just assign writing, teach it. 2. Don’t just cover material, interact with it. 3. Don’t just teach the course, teach the students. 4. Get the students to teach; they learn

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The Official (for now) Home Page of Kevin Brooks, Associate Professor of English, North Dakota State University.


Working at the interface of literacy and electracy, print culture and visual culture, text and image, visual and acoustic space. What better way to hold these things together than SuprGlu?

Online Publications

"Changing the Ground of Graduate Education: Wireless Laptops Bring Stability, not Mobility to Graduate Teaching Assistants." (Abstract only.) Going Wireless.

"The Classical Trivium: A Heuristic and Heuretic for New Media and Digital Communication." Kairos 11.3 (2007).

"What's Going On? Listening to Music, Composing Videos." Computers and Composition Online. 2006.

"Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs." Into the Blogosphere, 2004.

"The McLuhan Retrieval Reviewed." Kairos 9.1 (2004).

Online Projects, in Progress

"Career Compass and Multimedia Lab: The MyStory as Pedagogical, Problem-finding Genre." Presented at the North Dakota Humanities Summit, Oct. 2006.

"Strangers in a Strange Land: A MEmorial for the Lost Boys of the Sudan*." Presented at Computers and Writing 2007.

"Understanding Weblogs: A Visua-Verbal Probe." Presented at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. Reviewed by Catherine Hooper (slightly different title).

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Family Photo Album"

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